Continuing from Monday's Part One, here's the second and final installment of The Boxing Tribune's look at 2014's Best, Worst, and Strangest in Boxing: Fighter of the Year: Terence Crawford There has been some late resistance in giving the quiet kid from Omaha the honor he deserves, mostly because of Sergey Kovalev's big win over Bernard Hopkins registering much higher on … [Read more...]
Austin Trout, Chris Arreola on 12/11 ESPN2 “Special” Card, Tarver-Banks Possible
It's being reported that the December 11 card on ESPN2 and hosted at the Pechanga Resort and Casino in Temecula, California will be a fairly star-studded affair. Sharing the main stage will be former junior middleweight world titlist Austin Trout (27-2, 14KOs) in a bout against Luis Grajeda (17-3-2, 13KOs) and heavyweight Chris Arreola (35-4, 31KOs) against an opponent to be … [Read more...]
Antonio Tarver Pulls Out of Johnathon Banks Bout with Injury
Antonio Tarver has pulled out of his scheduled September 29 heavyweight bout with Johnathon Banks on Fox Sports 1 with a fractured thumb. The former light heavyweight world champ said that the injury was actually sustained in training more than two weeks ago and that he had tried to work through it, but ultimately felt that it was best to pull out of the bout. This contest … [Read more...]
What Makes a Great Chin?
by Hans Olson In the final scene of the 1973 film Magnum Force, Clint Eastwood’s character Harry Callahan famously stated that “man’s got to know his limitations.” In boxing, truer wisdom can’t be spoken as it relates to a fighter and his chin. So what makes a great chin? Since fistic time immemorial, it’s a question asked by fighters, fans, journalists, and just about … [Read more...]
The Boxing Tribune Year-End Awards: 2013
There were a lot of bright, glowing moments in 2013 for long-suffering hardcore boxing fans. A return to stacked (or semi-stacked) undercards saw some solid PPV co-features as well as some genuinely entertaining triple and quadruple-headers on HBO/Showtime. The cold war between Top Rank-Golden Boy and HBO-Showtime, instead of "ruining" the sport, actually saw all parties … [Read more...]